Letters to the editor

California desperately needs new thinking in the governor's office. It's unremarkable that GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman espouses the fiscal policies that made her wealthy, but astonishing that she remains unaware that these same free-market policies caused the overall economy to collapse into crisis. California's problems will not be solved by extremists of either party.

Fiscal sanity in California is being held hostage by the fiscally insane. We need a governor who can inspire moderate people toward immoderate fiscal success.